The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often
without their families, only to return a few years later to
war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The
young men who would become known as "The Ritchie Boys" arrived in
America as "enemy aliens," and although they were allowed to enlist
in the U.S. military, they were distrusted by everyone. So, in
effect, they became outsiders all over again. Until one day in
1942, when the Pentagon woke up to the incredible asset they had on
their hands. These men knew the language, culture and psychology of
the enemy better than any Americans and had the greatest motivation
to fight Hitler's anti-Semitic regime. The Pentagon came up with a
top-secret plan to harness their expertise by training them in the
art of prisoner interrogation. And so off they were sent, back into
the belly of the beast, Jews returning to Nazi Germany to occupy
the very front lines of battlefields across Europe. Many of them
re-entered Europe on D-Day. Their mission, to extract vital intel
from freshly-captured POWs about troop movements and command
structures and so on, was hugely successful and provided key
information that led to victory by the Allied forces. Meanwhile,
few of these men knew what had happened to the families they left
behind in Germany, families who had sacrificed to send them on to
the safety of America. As the intelligence they gathered revealed
increasingly horrific details about the Holocaust (most of which
was only then beginning to come to light), they came to fear - and,
in many cases, discovered - that the worst had befallen their own
fathers and mothers and siblings.
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